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Microsoft Launched Windows 11– Top Tips to get closer to what you love.

It has happened again! Microsoft released Windows 11, a new version of its operating system. A modification that'll eventually submerge the Windows 10 – most of us have got used to. It’s obvious we’re in the era of distance and disorganization. As communication and interaction aren’t always simple and direct. You’ve probably had to create workarounds or discover current ways to get things done. Yeah! The choice is yours. However, at the center of these, are what Windows 11 strives to solve. Windows 11 seems like an attempt to simplify...

METAVERSE; THE NEXT NORMAL.

Quite a number of people are interested in talking about the Metaverse in recent times. Emerging eighteen months off Zoom and Netflix in the form we’d never imagined. It’s obvious metaverse is a cool concept from the tech point of view. Covid-19 had flipped the world upside-down. Hence there are urgencies to develop new ways to live and work. The metaverse borne out of disruptive approach—attracts companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Roblox, and Epic Games to structure their business. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he'd changed the company's name to Meta...

Google has been running a platform that allows android users sync their device screen onto their car screen so that certain control functions could be accessed while driving. This whole function is made possible by the Android Auto app. Android Auto was introduced in 2015 as an android app that mirrors features of an android device on a car's dashboard information and entertainment system. It has since introduced several updates that come with more and modern functionalities. Although initially available in 36 countries in Europe, Indonesia and more, it has...

WHAT HAS CAUSED THE RECENT CRYPTO DIPS?

Wednesday, the 19th of May, 2021 was just an average day the world thought would go business as usual. Not until evening did the world hear of the wailings and excruciating mess a huge population of cryptocurrency holders had gotten into, especially those on the Bitcoin section. A huge dip had brought the coin’s value to $30,000 day-low before a consolation up to $38,000. Still not enough to compensate as it has traded as high as $65,000 per coin around mid-April. It is important to put to remembrance that Bitcoin...

SPACE DEBRIS CAUSES DAMAGE TO THE ISS.

On the 12th of May, in space, the International Space Station (ISS) astronauts while carrying out routine checks noticed a hole in the terminal covering of one of the robotic arm attached to the ISS. The robotic arm known as the 'Canadarm2' was flown to the highest sales in 1997 and had been used in carrying out maintenance works on outside parts of the ISS that may not be reachable by astronauts. This robotic arm was made by Canada and seems to be their area of expertise regarding parts provided...

THE AMERICAN PIPELINE HACK

Last two weeks’ Friday saw the happening of a very strange event that led to queues piling up in gas stations across the US. The Colonial Pipeline company’s computer system was hacked by a group known as ‘Darkside’ believed to be in eastern Europe. This caused the pipeline company to shut off some part of the system for about 5 days in order to isolate the threat. Eventually, a sum of about $5 million, actually 75 Bitcoin was paid as a ransom to make the system wholesome once again. A...

China launched the core module of its third crewed space station into space on Thursday, the 29th of April on its Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket at coastal Wenchang spaceport in China. China, who is not one of the four nations running the International Space Station (ISS) started construction works on the ‘Tianhe’ or ‘Heavenly Harmony’ in January 2021. It has launched modules in the past like the Tiangong-1 station in 2011 which it reported that it lost its control in 2016 and the Tiangong-2 launched in 2016 but was...

Jeff Bezos, the famous Amazon boss created a Space Rocket company in the year 2000, just two years before Elon Musk’s SpaceX company started. Blue Origin in its early years wasn’t as open as it currently is hence little was known about its activities. In fact, it rarely gives information about projects or activities going on in it not until some great feat is achieved such as the successful return flight of its gumdrop-shaped test craft in 2006 and mishaps such as the crash of a test vehicle that leaked...

Richard Lloyd, the leader of Google You Owe Us (GYOU) campaign has sued Google over a data breach in which over 4.5 million iphone users in the UK may have fallen victim. According to reports by LADBible, Google had between June 2011 and February 2012 ‘breached data protection laws by bypassing privacy settings in Safari on iPhones, which allowed an algorithm to ‘trick’ iPhones into handing over users’ personal data.’ The lawsuit is expected not to be an easy one considering the parties and the volume of users who may...

As reported by Forbes, a flaw was recently discovered by researchers from Germany's technical university of Darmstadt in which the over 1.6 Billion Apple devices out there are vulnerable and yes, including your Apple device. The researchers explained that there is a loophole on Apple cross-device sharing platform: Airdrop, through which hackers could access user's data. While trying to share files between devices, “To determine whether the other party is a contact, AirDrop uses a mutual authentication mechanism that compares a user’s phone number and email address with entries in...

LATEST FEATURE: GOOGLE'S HEADS UP

Google has recently launched an app on its digital well-being platform that would reduce on-road phone usage attributable accidents. The digital well-being app is a service provided on some Android phones that helps manage phone usage like time spent on specific apps or even reduce rest-cheating through its bedtime mode. Although there has been a clue as to the creation of this feature by XDA developers since November last year before its recent release, it seems Google has really taken its time to work on the feature which would be...

A Facebook data leak was made known to the public recently after Alon Gal, a cyber security personnel tweeted about it. The leak contained 533 million Facebook user details such as name, Facebook ID, phone number, birthdate, email address, gender, relationship status and some other sensitive information not meant to be publicly available. It infact contained details of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg and other persons such as the US Secretary of transportation, Pete Buttiege, and European Union commissioner for data protection, Didier Reynders. Facebook claimed that the recently unveiled leakage...

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